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Hundreds of people participated Saturday in a march in Paris to demand better protection of the oceans and their resources. World Oceans Day was organized by the Canadian Oceans Development Agencies at the Rio Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992.
Led by NGOs such as Surfrider Europe Foundation and the French branches of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) or Tara Ocean Foundation, Greenpeace Paris and Sea Shepherd, the walkers gathered up to 2,000 people according to the organizers along from the Saint-Martin cbad to the northeast. from Paris.
"Oceans should be at the center of debates on climate, biodiversity and pollution," according to Surfrider Europe.
One of the calls was for more funding to combat marine pollution and protect the oceans in general.
Although organizers worry about serious threats to the environment and the urgent need for intervention from governments and citizens, the Saturday demonstration was full of imagination. The demonstrators wore blue badociated with the color of the oceans, painted their faces and wore whales.
Never too young or too old to learn
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of Unesco as well as the Ocean and Climate Platform organized a day of conferences at the headquarters of the agency in Paris.
Unesco hoped to sensitize young people with a personalized speech on the effects of plastics in the oceans and on the climate.
A recent study by the World Wildlife Fund shows that France, with some 5,000 kilometers of coastline on three different bodies of water, is one of the worst polluters of plastics in the sea.
Oceans are part of the solution
The role of the oceans in the climate and climate change was one of the main issues discussed at climate change conferences, COP21 in Paris and COP22 in Marakkech.
The French coast at the height
Elsewhere in France, on the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, ingenuity and creativity have allowed the organization of many events to mark World Oceans Day.
Sustainable seafood badtails at literary or video competitions and dance performances, scientific and educational institutions such as the Nausicaa aquarium in Boulogne-sur-Mer, in northwestern France, have done their best to attract more attention, be it weekend.
Even the French seaside resort of Cannes has mobilized for the environment with local and national organizations for the marine environment. They held lectures, debates for all ages and screened a documentary film titled Méditéranée of Joseph Espla to help convince the public of his role in maintaining their beautiful, fragile and rich in marine and oceanic ecology.
Despite the outreach efforts of recent years, a regular diver said, "You can find coffee cups, water bottles and plastic bags at all the depths of the sea when diving off from the Cote d'Azur. "
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